Eva Hoffman





Eva Hoffman

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July 01, 1945 in Kraków, Poland

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Eva Hoffman is a writer and academic. She was born Ewa Wydra July 1, 1945 in Cracow, Poland after her Jewish parents survived the Holocaust by hiding in the Ukraine. In 1959, during the Cold War, the thirteen years old Eva, her nine years old sister "Alinka" and her parents immigrated to Vancouver, Canada, where her name has been changed to Eva. Upon graduating from high school she received a scholarship and studied English literature at Rice University, Texas in 1966, the Yale School of Music (1967-68), and Harvard University, where she received a Ph.D. in English and American literature in 1974.

Eva Hoffmann has been a professor of literature and creative writing at various institutions, such as Columbia University, the University of Minne...more


Average rating: 3.85 · 1224 ratings · 211 reviews · 11 distinct works
Lost in Translation: A Life...
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Appassionata
3.44 of 5 stars 344 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
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Time: Big Ideas, Small Books
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Exit Into History: A Journe...
3.65 of 5 stars 365 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions
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Shtetl: The Life and Death ...
3.58 of 5 stars 358 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions
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After Such Knowledge: Where...
3.83 of 5 stars 383 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions
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The Secret
2.74 of 5 stars 274 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions
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Illuminations
2.75 of 5 stars 275 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
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Introducing children to min...
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The Learning Adventure
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“Anger can be borne - it can even be satisfying - if it can gather into words and explode in a storm, or a rapier-sharp attack. But without these means of ventilation, it only turns back inward, building and swirling like a head of stream - building to an impotent, murderous rage.”
Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

“Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.”
Eva Hoffman

“I want to tell A Story, Every Story, everything all at once, not anything in particular that might be said through the words I know, and I try to roll all sounds into one, to accumulate more and more syllables, as if they might make a Möbius strip of language in which everything, everything is contained. There is a hidden rule even in this game, though - that the sounds have to resemble real syllables, that they can't disintegrate into brute noise, for then I wouldn't be talking at all. I want articulation - but articulation that says the whole world at once.”
Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

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